Regarding the Grimes vote:

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2. She said she's a Hillary Clinton Democrat

Insert policy differences betweeen HRC and Obama here: . Not much on the domestic front. A little more FP-wise, but not enough to make any motivated Democrat stay home except out of pure spite.

So what exactly would have been her problem with Obama that made her either vote against him or abstain?

She's trying to have it both ways, imo. Keep Obama's base on board and not lose white D's who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Obama under any circumstances. We'll see if it works.